Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <422837A6.9020302@atomice.net> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:25:42 +0000 From: Chris January User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.13-1 : can't cd anywhere with non-admin account References: <20050304095400.GW2839@cygbert.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - quill.nothard.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - cygwin.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - atomice.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam François-David Collin wrote: > Corinna, thanks you very much! the "notraverse" keyword did the trick. > > I don't really understand what do you mean by "it checks the > permissions of the parent directory"... As long as I can "traverse" > with windows acls in the windows world (and it is presently the case) > I should be able to do the same with cygwin semantics, right? Windows has traverse checking off by default. This means a user can access their home directory, for example, without being given access to to the parent directory or the root of the drive. It's a security 'feature'. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/